XVII. No ITEM, That no Victualler fhall be Victualler to capable to be elected or made a Ruler, be of the Ge- Auditor, Affiftant, Clerk or Beadle to or Office of the faid Company; and in Cafe any Perthe Company. fon after he fhall be chofen a Ruler,

neral Court

dying, or

Auditor, Affiftant, Clerk or Beadle, fhall and do by himself, or by his Wife, or any other, fet up, ufe or keep a Victuallinghoufe, Brandy-houfe, or other Fublickhoufe for fale of Liquors, during fuch Time as he fhall be a Ruler, Auditor, Affiftant, Clerk or Beadle; every Perfon fo doing, fhall forfeit and pay to the Ufe aforefaid the Sum of Ten Shillings a Week for every Week he fhall continue fo to do; and no Member of this Compa. ny fhall hereafter be capable of being chofen an Affiftant at any other Stairs, but where he doth usually Ply.

XVIII. A ITEM, It is farther agreed and ordered, Member of a That if any one or more of the Rulers or general Court Auditors fhall happen to die, or be turned turned out, a out for Corruption in his or their Office, new one to be or any other reasonable Caufe, or fhall chofen. Fine for not Serving his Office, during

the Year wherein fuch Ruler or Auditor was to have ferved in fuch Office; That then, and in every fuch Cafe, the Place of the Perfon or Perfons fo dying, or being difmiffed, or refusing to

ferve as aforefaid, fhall be fupplied by electing others in his or their ftead, in the fame manner as is before appointed for their firft Choice.

chofen.

ITEM, The Rulers and Affiftants of XIX. Auditors to be the faid Company for the Time being, or the major Part of them, on the first Day of May, yearly and every Year, (except it falls on a Sunday, and then on the Monday next following) fhall at a Court by them to be held, choose Five Perfons, able and fit Watermen, understanding Accounts, not then being a Ruler or Ru lers of the faid Company, and Two Perfons, able and fit Lightermen, understanding Accounts, not then being a Ruler or Rulers, to be presented yearly to the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen, at the first Court of Aldermen that shall be holden in the Month of July then next following, to the intent that they may be examined; and if found fo fitly qualified, then to be admitted, approved, and allowed to be Auditors of the Accounts of the Rulers and others of the faid Company for the Year enfuing. But in cafe the faid Court fhall upon Examination, find them, or any of them, not as before duly qualified to ferve the faid Office of Auditor of the faid Accounts, and

fhall

fhall therefore refuse to approve and admit fuch Perfon or Perfons fo found unfit, and not duly qualified to execute the faid Trust and Office, then the faid Rulers and Affiftants of the faid Company for the Time being, or the major Part of them, fhall within Ten Days after fuch Refufal duly funimons, or caufe to be fummoned a Court of Rulers and Affiftants; and then and there other fit Perfons understanding Accounts, fhall be elected and chofen by the faid Court, instead of such as were fo found unfit, and not duly qualified as aforefaid, to ferve the said Office, and therefore rejected by the faid Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen, as aforefaid; and shall prefent fuch Perfon or Perfons fo newly elected and chofen, to the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen within fourteen Days next after fuch new Choice and Election, to be examined. by the then next fubfequent Court of Aldermen, or within One Month next after fuch Prefentment as aforefaid; and if, qualified as aforefaid, then to be admitted to execute the faid Office; who when fo established, fhall examine and audit the Accounts of the Rulers and others of the faid Society and Company for the Time being, twice in every Year,

from

from Year to Year, as aforefaid, and oftener, if the faid general Court shall so Order: And it is further ordered, That the faid Rulers fhall upon, all Occafions that shall happen, other than what relates to the entering of Apprentices, and making them Free, or the like, fummons the faid Auditors for their Advice and' Affiftance, in the Ordering and Management of the Affairs of the faid Company; And if what the faid Auditors, or the major Part of them then present, fhall difallow in the faid Accounts, be objected against by the faid Rulers, or the Majority of them, or other fuchParticulars in fuch Accounts fo objected againft, fhall be prefented to the next general Court of Rulers and Affiftants, by them to be fettled; and if they cannot duly fettle and adjust the fame, then, upon Complaint thereof, and Appeal to the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen, fuch Difpute and Difference shall be there heard, in order to determine the fame, if they can, in fuch Manner as to them fhall feem juft and reasonable, for the common Good of the faid Company.

XX. Rulers ITEM, That no Ruler or Rulers of the not to expend faid Company, fhall expend or lay out in above 51. in one Year and any one Year above the Sum of Five to profecute Pounds, without an Order of a general Offenders. Court of the faid Company for the Time

being, or refuse effectually to Prosecute any Offenders against any of the Laws or Conftitutions of this Company, when due Proof fhall appear before them; and that fuch Ruler or Rulers acting contrary hereunto, fhall, when duly convicted thereof, be dismissed from being a Ruler, and not capable of being any more elected into the faid Office, or other Employment in the faid Company.

XXI. Ru- ITEM, That the Rulers for the Time lers to ap-being, according to the ancient Customs point plying- fhall yearly and every Year, in the Month places.

of June, fet forth and appoint the PlyingPlaces of all Watermen, at each of their respective Towns and Plying-Places, between Vauxhall above, and Lymehoufe below London-Bridge, by the ufual and accustomed Mark: And in neglect thereof, each and every of the faid Rulers fhall forfeit and pay to the Ufe aforefaid, the Sum of Twenty Shillings. And that the faid Rulers fhall once in Two Years, in the Month of July, fet forth and appoint, the PlyingPlaces